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Seattle * Hyderabad * Mumbai
www.MAQSoftware.com
Live on the Cutting Edge!
DreamSpark Yatra
A story of a high-school boy
5 months
ago…
17 year old wrote
small app in 2 days…
November
2009 April
2010 2010
5 months
since
launch 1st month
November
2009 December
2009
500 users
per day
50,000 users/ day
November
2009 April
2010 2010
6 months
since
launch
1st month
500/day 2nd month
Now..
1.5 million users worldwide
November
2009 April
2010 2010
4th month 5 months
since
launch
1st month
500/day
2nd month
50,000/day
Valued at $20 million!
Chatroulette created by Andrey Ternovskiy
Moral of the story
• Living on the Cutting Edge of Technology
provides disruptive opportunity..
• Some other student formed companies…
– Facebook (Marc Zuckerberg)
– Yahoo (David Filo & Jerry Yang)
– Google (Larry Page & Sergey Brin)
– Microsoft (Bill Gates)
Technology Growth: Accelerating Exponentially
• Time for 25% of society to adopt
• Implies you have to be in environment where
you are continuously on the cutting edge
Years to Adopt
Telephone 35 years
Radio 31 years
TV 25 years
PC 16 years
Internet 7 years
Wikipedia
5 years
The Opportunity- Short Term!
Technology Trend Opportunity Potential Money
Cloud Computing • Reduces IT management costs, helps scale
$100 * millions of current apps!
Multimedia • “Video in everything” • Avatar movie type effects
$10 billion +
Mobile • Natural user interface • Mass connectivity • Anyplace / anytime access
$6.2 billion +
Content Management • Everybody is creating content- every day
• More tools to manage
$4 billion +
Database Management • Exponentially increasing data • Better analysis for faster
decisions
$16 billion +
More opportunities
Exponential Trends Opportunity Potential Money
DNA sequencing and human genome project
• Apps to track and manage the billions of sequences
• Each of us and our pets will have 20,000 variables of data
$10 billion
Robotics • In 2007: 2 million personal robots, 10 million enterprise robots
• Doubling every year
$50 billion
Nanotechnology
• Manipulation of atoms, molecules • Apollo diamond carbon to
diamond
High
Bandwidth, storage, processing
• Better every year High
Biotech • Agri, medicine, informatics… High
In a gold rush the safer profit is in building the tools
So What Can You Do?
• Make conscious choices to be on cutting edge
• Always look to learn new technology
- Download beta’s from Microsoft.com
- Build live projects
- Industry orientation program at MAQ Software
Make the Right Choice:
You Have 2 Paths in Life…
Stability
(Village Road)
• Predictable
• Easy
• In Tech= use technology released last year or earlier
Flux/cutting edge
(City Road)
• Less predictable
• Challenging, rewarding…
• In Tech= use tech that is to be released
Why Live on Cutting Edge?
• More profitable
– Best job security= training for jobs of tomorrow!
• More enjoyable
– Cool new phone!
Sample of What You Can Do: Training at MAQ Software
You are Lucky!
• Right country
• Right city
• Right technology
• Right time…
• Start living on the cutting edge!
About MAQ Software
• 10 years of operations
• 70+ projects for product, marketing teams Microsoft (USA)
– Bing, Windows, MSN, OEM, GMO, Office..
• Entire team focused on unreleased or just released versions
– Windows Azure, Business Intelligence, Android, iPhone and Windows Phone
• Worldwide 300+ employees
– Integrated Engineering Centers in Redmond, Bombay and Hyderabad
– Common engineering practices, common tools and common training
• Over 90% of our projects are repeat customers or their referrals
• Ensure faster time to market at a lower cost
• Product Quality Development Practices
– Rigorous code analysis, twice a week builds, extensive testing
359.5% Growth
Fast Growth= More Opportunities
Seattle * Hyderabad * Mumbai
www.MAQSoftware.com
Start Living on the
Cutting Edge!
DreamSpark Yatra
The End